Vitex. | VERBENACEX (Pearson). 213 
acuminate, acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, euneate at the base, 
subsessile or on grooved petiolules not exeeeding 31 lin., entire or 
1-7 serrate on each side above the middle, with 5-8 primary nerves 
on each side obscure above, prominent beneath, usually with tufts of 
hairs in their axils beneath, otherwise glabrous, minutely glandular, 
1j—2 in. long, }—* in. broad, lateral leaflets often much smaller; 
cymes pedunculate, axillary, loosely divaricate, few-flowered, usually 
exceeding the leaves, bracteate, pubescent at the nodes, otherwise 
adpressed-puberulous or glabrous; peduncle flattened, puberulous, 
1-1 in. long ; bracts subulate or narrowly spathulate, puberulous or 
glabrous, 13-421 lin. long; flowers shortly pedicelled, 2-bracteolate, 
pale-blue ; calyx of the flower cup-shaped, subtruncate or very 
shortly 5-toothed, 10-nerved, glabrous within, pubescent and 
minutely glandular without, 14-18 lin. long; corolla-tube slightly 
curved, glabrous without below the middle, pubescent above, glab- 
rous within, 3—4 lin. long; limb ultimately reflexed ; the anterior lip 
pubescent within at the base, minutely so without ; stamens inserted 
about the middle of the corolla-tube, included; filaments broad at 
the base and villous; ovary subylobose, glabrous; drupe spherical 
or suboblong, far exserted from the slightly aecreseent calyx, glabrous, 
with a thick woody endocarp, about 4 lin. in diam. 
Eastern Reeion : Natal; banks of the Upper Tugela River, Gerrard and 
McKen, 1250! Zululand; without precise locality, 100 ft., Haygarth in Herb. 
Wood, 7462! 
3. V. geminata (H. H. W. Pearson) ; a large shrub; branches 
stout, 6-angled, with long internodes ; striate, glabrescent, with a 
smooth purplish bark ; leaves in whorls of 3, petiolate, 5-foliolate ; 
petiole stout, subterete, broader at the base, puberulous or pubescent 
at base and apex, otherwise glabrous, 1-1} in. long; leaflets 
coriaceous, oblanceolate, very shortly acuminate, obtuse, on grooved 
puberulous or glabrous petiolules, 1-3 lin. long, with entire, somewhat 
thickened and revolute margins, with 8—12 spreading primary nerves 
on each side, depressed above, prominent beneath, glabrous and 
dark-brown above, lighter beneath, puberulous along the nerves, 
otherwise glabrous, eglandular, the terminal leaflet 2}—-2$ in. long, 
10-11 lin. broad, the lateral smaller ; cymes lax, divaricate, peduncu- 
late, 2 from the axil of each leaf, equalling or somewhat exceeding 
the leaves, bracteate; pedunele angular, prominently ribbed, 
adpressed puberulous, 14-2} in. long; bracts linear-elliptic, acute, 
puberulous or pubescent, attenuate at the base into a short petiole 
about one-half as long as the lamina, 5-8 lin. long; flowers 
purplish (Gerrard and McKen), shortly pedicelled, ebracteolate, 
about 2 in. long; calyx of the flower cup-shaped, unequally and 
minutely 5-toothed, glabrous within, finely pubescent without, 
obscurely nerved, about 1} lin. long ; corolla-tube slightly curved, 
glabrous below, adpressed-pubescent above on the outside, pube- 
rulous within above the insertion of the stamens, pubescent in 
the throat, 4-5 lin, long ; limb reflexed, densely pubescent without, 
